Abraham Leto > Abraham's Quotes

“Most of the world's knowledge has already been written somewhere, you just gotta read the right books.”
― Bill Ackman

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
― Elon Musk

“Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").”
― Horace

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
― Epictetus

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

“Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast”
― Mark Divine, 8 Weeks to SEALFIT: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Unconventional Training for Physical and Mental Toughness-Revised Edition

“You are only crazy until you succeed, then, you are genius.”
― Kim Chestney, Radical Intuition: A Revolutionary Guide to Using Your Inner Power

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
― Terence McKenna

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
― Epictetus

“To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”
― Epictetus

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
― Epicurus

“Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
Religious tyranny did domineer.
At length the mighty one of Greece
Began to assent the liberty of man.”
― Epicurus

“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
― Epicurus

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“Communication’s central goal must be to facilitate a productive exchange of ideas, not to hear the sound of one’s own voice.”
― Savannah Brown

“We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, the sadness can depart once we see the truth."

"What's the truth?" Annie asked.

"That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you." The old woman smiled. "And the world is so full of need.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven